David Chinner wrote:
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:51:56AM +0400, Alex Tomas wrote: But this is really irrelevant - the issue at hand is what we want for VFS level delalloc support. IMO, that mechanism needs to support both XFS and ext4, and I'd prefer if it doesn't perpetuate the bufferhead abuses of the past (i.e. define an iomap structure instead of overloading bufferheads yet again).
I'm not sure I understand very well. where would you track uptodate, dirty and other states then? do you propose to separate block states from block mapping? thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html